Jonathan Hood practises in the firm’s Litigation Department with a focus on Arbitration, Competition/Antitrust Disputes, Trade Remedy Proceedings, Advertising and Marketing Law Disputes and Financial Services Litigation.

Jonathan has been involved in a complex domestic commercial arbitration. He has experience working on an anti-dumping and countervailing duty case on behalf of the Canadian Corn Producers. Jonathan has also worked on a broad range of corporate commercial litigation including a large auditor negligence case.

As an articling and summer student Jonathan gained experience working on mergers such as the Alcan/Pechiney transaction and assisting clients in dealing with the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act. Jonathan also helped write the Canadian Chapter in International Protection of Foreign Investment (Yorkhill Publishing, 2003).

In law school he was a part of the Osgoode team that won the William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot; this was the first Canadian team to win this competition beating 136 teams from 42 different countries. After articling he and his wife bicycled over 3000 km from Toronto to Calgary.

Publications/Presentations
Presentations   June 2006 Tips and Traps under Competition Law for IP Licensing – by Mark Opashinov and Jonathan Hood for presentation by Mark Opashinov to the Canadian Institute’s IP License Agreements Conference, June 2006 Publications
		February 2010 The Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act – An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure International Business and Trade Law Bulletin
		2010 Canada: Private Antitrust Litigation An extract from the 2010 Antitrust Review of the Americas - a www.GlobalCompetitionReview.com special report.
		October 2009 "Canada" Chapter in in Getting the Deal Through - Private Antitrust Litigation 2010 Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through - Private Antitrust Litigation 2010 (published in October 2009).
		October 2009 Court Maintains Advantages Of Arbitration – Procedural Decisions by Arbitrators Not Subject to Appeal Litigation Group Bullein
		September 2009 Tribunal Decision Affirms Market Power Required in Order to Succeed in ‘Refusal to Deal’ Cases Competition Bulletin
		February 2009 Bigger Penalties and Tighter Rules - How changes to Competition Act will affect Canadian advertisers and marketers Advertising & Marketing Bulletin
		July 2008 New Canadian Predatory Pricing Guidelines Embrace Aggressive Pricing Competition Law Bulletin
		June 2008 An Inconvenient Rule: Change Your Compliance Climate Advertising and Marketing Bulletin
		June 2008 Decision Challenges Nature of Competition Tribunal’s Screening Function of Private Applications Competition Law Bulletin
		April 2008 Too Good to be True? Health Claims in Advertising Advertising and Marketing Bulletin
		October 2007 Private Antitrust Litigation in Canada The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2008 A Global Competition Review Special Report
		October 2007 Canada Chapter in Getting the Deal Through – Private Antitrust Litigation 2008 Global Competition Review, October 2007
		October 2006 Getting the Deal Through – Private Antitrust Litigation 2007 Global Competition Review
		June 2006 The “Claim Substantiation” and “Misleading Advertising” Chapters of the Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide CCH Canada, Toronto, 2006
		June 2006 Canada Plays it Safe on Safeguards Client Alert - International Business and Trade Law Bulletin
		June 2006 Tips and Traps under Competition Law for IP Licensing by Mark Opashinov and Jonathan Hood for presentation by Mark Opashinov to the Canadian Institute’s IP License Agreements Conference, June 2006
		May 2006 The Treatment of Subsidies in Trade Remedy Laws and Trade Agreements: The Complex Case of Softwood Lumber Article: Inter-Pacific Bar Association Annual Conference - Sydney, May 2006
		January 2006 Making Sure Your Price Claims Are Legal 12th Annual Canadian Institute Advertising & Marketing Law Conference
		December 2005 Chinese Imports Cause Flurry of Safeguard Cases International Business and Trade Law Bulletin
		March 2005 WTO Deals Another Blow to US Farm Subsidies International Business and Trade Law Bulletin
		January 2005 The Universe's Best Guide to Claim Substantiation Strategies Presentation The Canadian Institute's 11th Annual Advertising & Marketing Law Conference Presented by Bill Hearn, Partner, McMillan Binch and Tim Civil, General Counsel, Frito Lay Canada
		December 2004 Gas Storage: A Key To Ontario's Electricity Industry Energy Analects, December 2004 Co-authored with Jonathan Hood, Student-At-Law